Read All About It - Site Devoted To Daft Argus Billboards

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

It had to happen...

Flickr: The Argus headlines (Brighton Hove) Pool

Personal favourite: 'MUM GIVES BIRTH AT 70MPH'

 

[Braders]

genius - right , personal fave other then Zombies take over city is

policeman attacked by cows

 

[Dover]

For me it's "Porn Star Loses Appeal."

 

[Trigger]

Man, 86, In Terror Mud Ordeal?

 

[house your seagull]

that is brilliant.

 

[bristolseagull]

there are a couple of shops in the lanes that sell argus billboard post cards

 

[Walkers Cajun Squirrel]

 

[surrey jim]

personal favourite is

'King Alfred is dead'

edit just seen above!!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Not a billboard, but an opening sentence from a major international story that shows just how parochial a local newspaper can be:-

Former Sussex agricultural labourer, Jomo Kenyatta, died today.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

There was one a few years back that always mystified me:-

HOVE BLAZE SURVIVOR FOUND DEAD

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

I remember one a few years ago..

'Free David Beckham poster'

didn't know he'd been arrested !!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

WTF

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[Carrot Cruncher]

"Yawning almost killed man"

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

I liked the day they mis-spelled "Brighton" as "Brigthon"

 

[CoCoa]

Policemen stuck in lift AGAIN

 

[Twinkle Toes]

There was one a few years back that always mystified me:-

HOVE BLAZE SURVIVOR FOUND DEAD

 

[EastbourneGull]

This goes back to the sixties when Harold Wilson was PM and a cabinet reshuffle was announced. It was in fact the front page headline...

WILSON GETS HIS CHOPPER OUT

 

[Twinkle Toes]

I can't recall any local billboard headlines that made me chortle, so forgive me for mentioning a couple of newspaper headlines that stick in my mind.

One comes from them cheeky funsters at the ol' Current Bun:-

Slim-Fad Girl, 17, Vanishes

The second came from some State-side rag & went..

..Man Struck By LIghtening Faces Battery Charge

You couldn't make it up! Oh, hang on a mo'...

 

[Lady Whistledown]

The King Alfred one for me.

Much as I get bored of the Argus's petty parochialism and stirring up of total non-issues, that was a good 'un.